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A A Anastasia Elementary School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About A A Anastasia Elementary School
An A Anastasia Elementary School is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in LONG BRANCH, New Jersey, run under LONG BRANCH PUBLIC SCHOOL District, caters to 588 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 45% above typical.
LONG BRANCH PUBLIC SCHOOL District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,368 students. An A Anastasia Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, An A Anastasia Elementary School lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%; the rest reads as 18% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at An A Anastasia Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, An A Anastasia Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.6%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Monmouth County) logs that median household income runs about $124,845, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), An A Anastasia Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Gregory Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around An A Anastasia Elementary School. On composite proficiency, An A Anastasia Elementary School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Looking at the recent track record. An A Anastasia Elementary School's enrollment has rose 4% since 2018, when it stood at 567 (now 588). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 52% to 68% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 8.0:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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